aframomum

English Thesaurus

1. an African genus of plants of the family Zingiberaceae (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	plant genus,
definition	:	a genus of plants (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	aframomum melegueta, grains of paradise, guinea grains, guinea pepper, melagueta pepper,
definition	:	West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family zingiberaceae, ginger family, zingiberaceae,
definition	:	a family of tropical monocotyledonous plants of order Musales (noun.plant)